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You planning any more, or should I start brainstorming another episode?
I'm not really in a planning mode right now. It's more a sit down and try to come up with whatever.
So yeah, go ahead.
Well I really wouldn't know where to go from here for Ashley. Best I could probably do is flash over to Charlie for a bit, have him feeling weird and awkward(er than a normal teenager). He's gotta be at least 6 hours into a 24 hour transformation by now. Probably closer to 8.
I've been thinking a bit about Ashley, but I really don't have a solid idea yet.
[*] She is going to fuck somebody. It's a core part of the premise, so this thing is going to happen.
[*] Horny as she is, she's still a virgin. It would be a disservice to her character to just grab some guy and do him without any development.
[*] Her early victims should be fun to transform.
I'm also conflicted as to the best way to protect her from the consequences of the transformations. I think it'd be fun to see how Ashley and her victims deal with the changes while being aware of them, but at the same time I feel like that path ends with her locked up in quarantine, which is no fun at all.
Those are some valuable observations, and I would most definitely agree with all of your bullet points. The 'first time' is going to be important for a number of reasons and it's going to deserve a great deal of focus in order to mine out all of the potential inherent to it.
Even disregarding the sex itself, there's the reaction to it, the reaction to the person she's done it with, the realization that her head's cleared up, perhaps other peoples' reactions if word spreads, definitely the reaction of her partner, then as the transformation starts and becomes evidently 'her fault' that pops open an entirely new can of worms to play in the dirt with.
And that's all without taking into account 'who' it would be with. The obvious archetypes would be a male friend, a crush, some convenient loser, even a teacher or a complete stranger if she gets in the right mindset for it.
In retrospect we might have been better served by making the arousal build more slowly, although that's perhaps on me for establishing her the next morning.
We should most definitely steal away some time to establish some supporting characters though. We may or may not need to switch perspectives, given how incredibly distracted Ashley is.
And as for keeping Ashley out of quarantine, do keep in mind how this all began. Even if involving more of Jen's victims or meddling in this storyline would be contrary to its focus or quality, it is still A-Grade Plot Spackle. "Why isn't anything official being done about this?", - "Because Jen."
Of course on the other hand, Ashley ending up in a medical quarantine being researched and tended to by doctors sounds like a very potential-filled story arc to me. It would almost certainly end up failing, possibly again "Because Jen.", but it doesn't necessarily seem as anti-fun to me as it does to you.
Okay, I guess I can see the point on Grade-A Plot Spackle. I'd rather not use it too heavily, but it's there if we need it.
The outsider perspective could be useful as well. I'll have to think about that a bit.
I agree that further influence from Jen should be very, very carefully considered and used only as a last resort. The storyline's better if the 'godlike influence' of Jen and the Ring are constrained to just the premise and at most the sort of big obvious problems that we can't otherwise find satisfactory solutions to but hypothetically would have come to mind while cursing young Ashley.